Responses to OIA requests December 2025

01/12/2025 - Information on prohibiting homeless people from staying in particular public areas (PDF 161.03KB)
01/12/2025 - Essential Travel Allowance policy and any policies restricting beneficiary movement (PDF 3.07MB)
01/12/2025 - Essential Travel Allowance policy and any policies restricting beneficiary movement [DATA] (Excel 9.49KB)
02/12/2025 - Information about the inclusion of step-parent income in Student Allowance assessments (PDF 134.57KB)
02/12/2025 - Request for all information relating to the interior design of Work and Income offices from 2016 to present (PDF 14.57MB)
02/12/2025 - SuperGold app and data sharing and privacy (PDF 151.57KB)
02/12/2025 - Top five motels receiving Emergency Housing assistance and Emergency Housing assistance paid to the Chatley Group Ltd (PDF 108KB)
02/12/2025 - Top five motels receiving Emergency Housing assistance and Emergency Housing assistance paid to the Chatley Group Ltd [DATA] (Excel 9.28KB)
03/12/2025 - Guidelines for dental grants, and the Ministry's relationship with the oral health sector (PDF 129.14KB)
03/12/2025 - Guidelines for dental grants, and the Ministry's relationship with the oral health sector [DATA] (Excel 11.9KB)
03/12/2025 - Base rate of Accommodation Supplement broken down by areas (PDF 149.98KB)
04/12/2025 - Dental Grants paid to Maori in Wairarapa and changes following the income cap in 2022 (PDF 169.83KB)
04/12/2025 - Dental Grants paid to Maori in Wairarapa and changes following the income cap in 2022 [DATA] (Excel 16.78KB)
04/12/2025 - The total amount paid to foreign governments for reciprocal Social Security Agreements (PDF 257.1KB)
04/12/2025 - Information about beneficiaries moving to other regions for work (PDF 158.32KB)
05/12/2025 - Policies on refer to client initiated call recordings and information on case managers (PDF 390.93KB)
08/12/2025 - Information on Hearing Aid Funding (PDF 347.95KB)
08/12/2025 - Definitions of boarders, public housing, accommodation costs and market rent (PDF 153.16KB)
09/12/2025 - Internal rules and guidelines relating to entitlement (PDF 136.04KB)
09/12/2025 - Data on Student Allowance where a student is studying overseas from the last five years (PDF 131.25KB)
09/12/2025 - Purchasing rules and guidelines for Individualised Funding prior to changes on 18 March 2024 (PDF 439.66KB)
10/12/2025 - Spending on AI and digital automation since January 2023 (PDF 114.6KB)
11/12/2025 - Information on workplace bullying, harassment, and sexual harm since 2020 (PDF 655.88KB)
11/12/2025 - Information on workplace bullying, harassment, and sexual harm since 2020 [DATA] (Excel 15.42KB)
11/12/2025 - COVID-19 Wage Subsidy information about Stuff (PDF 116.14KB)
11/12/2025 - Information shared by Ipsos around tokens of appreciation for the Youth Survey (PDF 110.26KB)
12/12/2025 - Emergency Housing Decline Reasons guidance referenced in WPQ 49824 (PDF 362.26KB)
12/12/2025 - Updated dataset of emergency housing grants and declines for October 2025 (PDF 118.29KB)
12/12/2025 - Updated dataset of emergency housing grants and declines for October 2025 [DATA] (Excel 10.06KB)
15/12/2025 - Updated information on the Driver License Support Initiative (PDF 156.8KB)
15/12/2025 - Information relating to Accommodation Supplement and the sale of former homes (PDF 131.98KB)
15/12/2025 - All advice and correspondence regarding Jobseeker numbers since 1 January 2025, including modelling or scenarios (PDF 44.51MB)
15/12/2025 - Registered health practitioners and nurses employed by the Ministry (PDF 182.18KB)
15/12/025 - Funding for screen reading software or devices with built in screen reading software (PDF 105.3KB)
16/12/2025 - The creation of an approved pool of doctors for medical certificates for health an disability benefits (PDF 11.15MB)
16/12/2025 - A breakdown of direct deductions for Chinese pensions (PDF 168.53KB)
16/12/2025 - On-call arrangements for compensation for media or communications staff for after-hours or public holiday work (PDF 147.78KB)
16/12/2025 - Policies and procedures for responding to OIA requests (PDF 495.76KB)
18/12/2025 - Medical alarms funded in the period 1 August 2024 to 31 August 2025 by accredited alarm company (PDF 110.19KB)
18/12/2025 - Medical alarms funded in the period 1 August 2024 to 31 August 2025 by accredited alarm company DATA (Excel 16.08KB)
18/12/2025 - Information about KPIs for Service Centres relating to benefit numbers, employment outcomes and supports, training and Emergency Housing (PDF 185.85KB)
18/12/2025 - Information about KPIs for Service Centres relating to benefit numbers, employment outcomes and supports, training and Emergency Housing [DATA] (Excel 105.59KB)
18/12/2025 - Policies and procedures for Funeral Grants and a breakdown of applications from 2019 to present (PDF 491.82KB)
22/12/2025 - Cost Codes and landlord-referred issues (PDF 181.31KB)
22/12/2025 - Cost Codes and landlord-referred issues [DATA] (Excel 326.91KB)
22/12/2025 - All information regarding the Simplification Programme, including ADM (PDF 30.9MB)
22/12/2025 - Data on Youth Service, young parents, dependent tamariki, and duration on service (PDF 133.99KB)
22/12/2025 - Data on Youth Service, young parents, dependent tamariki, and duration on service [DATA] (Excel 34.82KB)
23/12/2025 - Policies and evaluations of FVSV programmes, and the Ministry's contribution to the Debt to Government framework (PDF 22.81MB)
23/12/2025 - COVID-19 Wage Subsidy and Royal Commission of Inquiry's Phase 1 report of the Lessons from COVID-19 (PDF 182.87KB)
23/01/2025 - Information about the Steps to Freedom Grant, including planned changes and number of recipients (PDF 155.85KB)
23/01/2025 - Information about the Steps to Freedom Grant, including planned changes and number of recipients [DATA] (Excel 9.62KB)